Data Breach Today
JANUARY 27, 2023
Deal to End Lawsuit in 2021 Breach Follows a $4.2 Million Settlement in a 2019 Hack A Montana healthcare entity has agreed to pay $4.3 million to settle a proposed class action lawsuit filed in the wake of a 2021 hacking incident affecting 214,000 individuals. The deal is the entity's second multimillion-dollar lawsuit settlement in the last four years involving a major breach.
Schneier on Security
JANUARY 27, 2023
Early in his career, Kevin Mitnick successfully hacked California law. He told me the story when he heard about my new book , which he partially recounts his 2012 book, Ghost in the Wires. The setup is that he just discovered that there’s warrant for his arrest by the California Youth Authority, and he’s trying to figure out if there’s any way out of it.
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Data Breach Today
JANUARY 27, 2023
Research Firm CEO Says IoT Makers Treat Cybersecurity as Somebody Else's Problem A review of internet of things manufacturers by Copper House shows that European companies fared the worst in having vulnerability disclosure policies. The European Commission has proposed legislation known as the Cyber Resilience Act that would make vulnerability disclosure policies mandatory.
Hunton Privacy
JANUARY 27, 2023
On January 18, 2023, the European Data Protection Board (“EDPB”) published its Report on the work undertaken by the Cookie Banner Taskforce (the “Report”). The positions reflected in the Report result from the coordinated response of EU data protection authorities (“DPAs”) to the complaints filed by the non-governmental organization co-founded by privacy activist Max Schrems, None of Your Business (“NOYB”), that related to the requirements of cookie banners in the EU.
Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage
Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.
Data Breach Today
JANUARY 27, 2023
Company Delayed Registering as a Money Transmitter, Say Bankers The Dutch central bank fined Coinbase 3.3 million euros, saying the U.S. cryptocurrency exchange failed to comply with the national anti-money laundering statute. Since May 2020, Dutch law has required crypto companies operating in the Netherlands to register as money transmitters.
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Data Breach Today
JANUARY 27, 2023
Also: Consolidation Helps Microsoft Sales; Can ChatGPT Revolutionize Cybersecurity? In the latest weekly update, four ISMG editors discuss why it pays off to have well-practiced incident response plans, whether Chat GPT is a blessing or a curse for penetration testers and bug bounty hunters, and how Microsoft has reason to be cheerful as security sales hit $20 billion.
Dark Reading
JANUARY 27, 2023
OpenAI's chatbot has the promise to revolutionize how security practitioners work.
Data Breach Today
JANUARY 27, 2023
Berlin Pledges Leopard 2 Tanks for Ukraine, Provoking Passing DDoS Attacks A pro-Kremlin hacking group with a history of launching distributed denial-of-service attacks took its annoyance tactics to Germany following Berlin's announcement that it will ship Leopard 2 battle tanks to Ukraine's front lines. A German government spokesperson said the attacks had minimal effect.
eSecurity Planet
JANUARY 27, 2023
Cybercriminals recently breached U.S. federal agencies using remote monitoring and management (RMM) software as part of a widespread campaign. The malicious campaign began in June 2022 or earlier and was detected a few months later, according to an advisory from the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the National Security Agency (NSA), and the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC).
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Geopolitical risk is now at the top of the agenda for CEOs. But tracking it can be difficult. The world is more interconnected than ever, whether in terms of economics and supply chains or technology and communication. Geopolitically, however, it is becoming increasingly fragmented – threatening the operations, financial well-being, and security of globally connected companies.
Data Breach Today
JANUARY 27, 2023
FIDO Alliance's Hulka on Why Customers and Providers Like Payment Confirmation Payment regulations in Europe have forced retailers to implement strong authentication that's phishing-resistant and facilitates more customer understanding, says FIDO Alliance's Christina Hulka. This has spurred a push for clients to confirm what they're purchasing and how much they wish to spend.
Security Affairs
JANUARY 27, 2023
Microsoft warns customers to patch their Exchange servers because attackers always look to exploit unpatched installs. Microsoft published a post to urge its customers to protect their Exchange servers because threat actors actively attempt to exploit vulnerabilities in unpatched installs. The IT giant recommends installing the latest available Cumulative Update (CU) and Security Update (SU) on Exchange servers “There are too many aspects of unpatched on-premises Exchange environments that
Dark Reading
JANUARY 27, 2023
Google has mounted a massive takedown, but Dragonbridge's extensive capabilities for generating and distributing vast amounts of largely spammy content calls into question the motivation behind the group.
Security Affairs
JANUARY 27, 2023
Lexmark released a security firmware update to fix a remote code execution flaw, tracked as CVE-2023-23560, that impacts more than 100 printer models. Lexmark has released a security firmware update to address a remote code execution vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-23560, that impacts more than 100 printer models. The CVE-2023-23560 flaw is a server-side request forgery (SSRF) in the Web Services feature of Lexmark printers, it received a CVSS score 9.0. “A Server-Side Request Forgery (
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Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.
Dark Reading
JANUARY 27, 2023
A nasty SSRF bug in Web Services plagues a laundry list of enterprise printers.
KnowBe4
JANUARY 27, 2023
Is alert fatigue getting to you? I found a guide that allows you some well-deserved personal downtime, and still has something to do with work so that you can justify getting away with taking some PTO and veg out. But sometimes there are 1,000 channels and it still looks like there is nothing to watch. This might help.
WIRED Threat Level
JANUARY 27, 2023
ADS-B Exchange, beloved for resisting censorship, was sold to a company owned by private equity—and now even its biggest fans are bailing.
Dark Reading
JANUARY 27, 2023
Data Privacy Day rolls around year after year, and data privacy breaches likewise. Two-thirds of data breaches result in data exposure.
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Security Affairs
JANUARY 27, 2023
A Dutch hacker who was arrested at the end of last year claims to have stolen the personal data of almost all Austrians. At the end of November 2022, the Amsterdam police arrested a 25-year-old man from Almere who is suspected of having stolen or traded the personal data of tens of millions of people around the world. The investigation into the activity of the man was launched by the Austrian Federal Criminal Investigation Service which spotted the man offering a dataset on a cybercrime forum in
Troy Hunt
JANUARY 27, 2023
Breaches all over the place today! Well, this past week, and there's some debate as to whether one of them is a breach, a scrape or if the term just doesn't matter anyway. Plus, we've been kitchen shopping, I'm helping friends out with connected doorbells and other random but somehow related things this week. Enjoy 😊 References I'll be "at" GOTO Aarhus in May (there online, but definitely speaking at the show) Following all the awesome input, we decided t
Micro Focus
JANUARY 27, 2023
Despite the clickbait appeal of alarmist cyborg onslaught stories, the prospects of a more symbiotic rapport between humans and our machines are bright. The post AI to Unlock Human Potential first appeared on Micro Focus Blog.
Dark Reading
JANUARY 27, 2023
Chris Kirsch, CEO of runZero, sits down with Dark Reading’sTerry Sweeney for a Fast Chat on the importance of asset discovery.
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Hunton Privacy
JANUARY 27, 2023
On January 25, 2023, Hunton Andrews Kurth’s retail industry team released its annual Retail Industry in Review publication, which provides an overview of key issues and trends that impacted the retail sector in the past year, as well as a preview of relevant legal issues retailers can expect to arise in 2023. This year’s publication highlights key topics including cyber insurance, cybersecurity and privacy accountability, M&A activity, regulation and litigation related to PFAS, labor organiz
Dark Reading
JANUARY 27, 2023
Organizations are struggling to procure appropriate technical tools to address responsible AI, such as consistent bias detection in AI applications.
OpenText Information Management
JANUARY 27, 2023
Data Privacy Day, held every year on January 28, is a time to raise awareness and promote data protection best practices that build trust. As we honor this day and mark a new year, the global privacy landscape continues to develop. For example, Australia recently passed new privacy reforms significantly increasing penalties for violations and … The post Data Privacy 2023: A reinvigorated data disposition strategy will bolster trust appeared first on OpenText Blogs.
Dark Reading
JANUARY 27, 2023
Organizations care about data privacy, but their priorities appear to be different from what their customers think are important.
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Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.
Schneier on Security
JANUARY 27, 2023
This is a good list of modern phishing techniques.
Jamf
JANUARY 27, 2023
Part two of the blog series on telemetry explores the data-gathering and storage aspects of collecting rich telemetry data. Also, exploring what options are available to organizations to meet their needs, as well as some useful tips to consider when preparing to work with granular data and how to leverage it into actionable tasks, such as how it can inform management workflows.
Hanzo Learning Center
JANUARY 27, 2023
Today is the 78th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest of the Nazi death camps. On this Holocaust Memorial Day, we remember all of those who were killed in genocides across the world. The most infamous of these genocides is the Holocaust, where six million Jews were killed in death camps, alongside other marginalized groups such as the Roma, disabled people, homosexuals, and political enemies.
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